Thank you for the clarification. Very helpful. Not being a member of the subversion voting elite, what is the probability (polling?) that this bug will be fixed in 1.6.10?
If this bug is not fixed, then I will have no other recourse but to move to mecurial. Bummer I really like svn. Ed > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 08:49:40 -0500 > From: cmpil...@collab.net > To: xray...@hotmail.com > CC: b...@qqmail.nl; users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Why do you need to grant root access to subversion repository?? > > There were two different things that changed in Subversion 1.5 that led to > this. > > 1. Subversion started firing of OPTIONS requests for all operations, often > against the repository root URL. > > 2. 'svn copy' and 'svn move' started allowing folks to copy/move multiple > items at once, and the code was a little lazy about determining the right > URL on which to base those multi-target operations. > > The "incomplete fix" Bert mentions is that (1) above has been remedied on > trunk and proposed for backport to 1.6.x, but (2) has only been remedied on > trunk. The backport was just too hairy, and the number of folks affected by > the bug too small, to bother with. > > Voting is limited to committers in this case (a backport means not just "I > think we should fix this bug" but also "I've reviewed the code myself, it > looks sane, doesn't appear to cause more problems, etc.". > > As for a workaround besides the obvious one (granting read access at the > root), perhaps you could build the HEAD of Subversion's 1.6.x branch for > yourself. If that's not an option, then short of rolling back to the latest > 1.4.x release (the last releases before the bugs were introduced), you'll > just need to wait for 1.6.10 to be released (assuming that more folks vote > the backport into that branch). > > > Keith Theman wrote: > > Thank You Bert, > > > > but what do you mean "an incomplete fix" ? and how can I vote for this? > > I can't believe this bug exists! Is there a work around while we wait > > for the fix? > > > > Ed > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > From: b...@qqmail.nl > > To: xray...@hotmail.com; users@subversion.apache.org > > Subject: RE: Why do you need to grant root access to subversion repository?? > > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:29:16 +0100 > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > See issue #3242 (http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3242) > > > > > > > > An incomplete fix should be available (if it gets enough votes) in > > 1.6.10; see > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.6.x/STATUS. > > > > > > > > Bert Huijben > > > > > > > > *From:* Keith Theman [mailto:xray...@hotmail.com] > > *Sent:* dinsdag 2 maart 2010 14:25 > > *To:* users@subversion.apache.org > > *Subject:* Why do you need to grant root access to subversion repository?? > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > We had been using svn 1.3. We had multiple projects in a single > > repository, and we had apache with mod_dav as a front end. We configured > > the access control list disallow root access: > > > > [myRepo:/] > > #* = r > > > > but then allowed appropriate user access to their project folders: > > > > [myRepo:/myProject] > > jdoe = rw > > > > > > Everything worked great, but then we updated to 1.6 and now we get > > permission errors unless we grant EVERYONE read access to the root of > > the repository! Everyone can see anything in the repository.... not > > good. What is going on? > > > > Ed > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. > > <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now. > > <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/> > > > -- > C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> > CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/
